Dream Noir

Senryu

by James Piatt

old rhymes
decay in graves
while

dark memories scream

poems perish
In dark visions
of poetic eradication

In the crumbling dust
where broken bodies are cold
a dark moon resides

in lonely cemeteries
when a night bird moans
death lives in silence

James Piatt

James, a nonagenarian, lives in Santa Ynez, California, with his wife Sandy, and an Aussie dog named Scout. He has published five collections of poetry; The Silent Pond, Ancient Rhythms, LIGHT, Solace Between the Lines, and Serenity and over 1850 individual poems, five novels, and forty short stories in hundreds of national and international literary publications. He is twice a Best of Net nominee and four times a Pushcart nominee. He earned his doctorate from BYU, and his BS and MA from California State Polytechnic University, SLO.

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